Labs and Accuracy

Our labs

We work directly with independent labs who are registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our labs use various monitoring techniques to ensure compliance with ISO laboratory standards and to make sure the test results they produce are reliable.

Our testing kits

Our home blood testing kits are CE-marked. This means everything in our kits meet health and safety requirements within the European Economic Area (EEA).

Results accuracy

By collecting your blood sample properly, your results should be reliable and accurate — our easy to follow instructions will guide you through it.

The labs we work with run validation tests on all finger-prick blood samples before making them available.

Our technology

Our team of NHS doctors, data scientists, and clinicians use the power of technology to futher ensure that everything we do is safe and credible. Our medical device products are also regulated by the MHRA.

Medical software

Our class 1 medical software device draws on data from more than 500 peer-reviewed scientific publications to provide personalised health insights and lifestyle recommendations.

Accreditation

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Your data is in safe hands, we use the latest encryption technologies and continually assess our GDPR compliance. See privacy policy

You can use a lot of our features for free — including adding your own results, predicted blood results, health scores, and health plans. If you want to do a home blood test, you’ll need to pay. See pricing

We collect at least 400uL of blood (about 10 drops) but the lab analysers require less than 100uL of blood— research shows you typically need about 60uL for accurate results.

Blood tests at your GP or hospital are usually from a vein (venous). The only difference is how your blood is collected — through a finger-prick sample. We only offer tests that the lab has proven to be accurate from finger-prick samples.

The labs we work with are likely using the same or similar equipment to what an NHS lab uses. It might even be the same lab.

Your testing kit contains everything you need to do a finger-prick blood test at home. We’ll walk you through it with our online guide. See an overview of the process

If you’d like a nurse to come to your home or workplace and take a venous sample for you (at an additional cost), email hello@thriva.co and we’ll set this up for you.

If there are some abnormal results, our reporting doctors may recommend you consult with your usual healthcare professional. This could mean you need to have more medical investigations, which may include further or repeat blood testing.

From time to time, we may update our reference ranges. This is to reflect the latest information from our partner labs and national guidelines. We will always inform you to let you know about any changes beforehand.

The updated reference range won’t be shown for past tests you’ve done with us. These will still show the old reference ranges instead. This means a test that was abnormal before, may now be normal in the updated range. It’s important to check this if you are retesting a biomarker that was abnormal in the past.